God. Watching this video back, now years later, I am SO distracted from the reflection of my septum ring. I am so sorry if that shine is super distracting for you too, I had no idea. Its such a bummer with such an important and informational video. Maybe I will re film it one day. SORRY GUYS!!!
I've watched this video a couple times now and never noticed it at all. I too was just very focused on the amazing lessons I've learned through your videos. You are so thorough and answer all my questions almost as fast as I've wondered them. Lol. Thank you for doing you and sharing your knowledge.♥
I'm 60+ years old so you know where this is coming from. The septum ring was lost in the education. Very well done. There is nothing worse than hearing "umm" and "like" and "it's like" over and over again, as is the case in so many of these videos. That wasn't present in yours. It was clear that you knew what you wanted to say to get your point across, and you did. I learned more from your video than from over a dozen others, in less time. Brava!
You are a fabulous teacher! I've learned more in this 45 minutes than I did in 2 "professional" classes and hours on RU-vid. I cannot thank you enough.
I was JUST about to say that myself! I took several “professional” classes and while the teacher is a very nice lady, she wasn’t the best teacher. She taught me to hold my glass at an angle 📐 when I’m beading edges so the extra runs off all over the table! Terrible edges with hardly any beading. Thank you for this tutorial! Super helpful! I appreciate you for producing this type of content. 😌
I can’t believe how helpful this was. You literally answered every single one of the questions and concerns I had about soldering for stained glass in one video. Incredible! Thank you for taking the time and energy to put this together, it was so well done!
I second that, I wasted an hour watching crap videos before finding this one, since I haven't done this in over 15 years and wanted a refresher before I dove back in lol
If I may make a couple suggestions: In terms of the question you've been asked about the soldering iron cooling off too much when you rub it on the sponge, this is a real thing, and very frustrating. It's caused by weaker irons (aka, bought at Hobby Lobby, like all Hobby Lobby tools). As far as the CJ's Flux remover, this serves a much more important purpose than just removing the residue (which as you said, it does about as well as dish soap). It also contains an oxidation remover, which means you can skip any steps for sanding or polishing the solder lines in order to achieve best effect (especially with the gold patina). Of course if you patina right away, this is less of an issue, but if you had to let it sit for a few days beforehand it can make a huge difference.
Thank you for posting this it is a pleasure to learn from someone who has taken the time to break down everything needed to produce a excellent piece of art but explains it in a way that that is easy to understand for total beginners. You rock girl!
Best tutorial I've had the pleasure of watching! You are thorough and articulate when you teach. Everything made sense! Excited to start my soldering crafts. Thank you!
I am a super new beginner (in the last 2 months) and you have officially become my go-to source! I can't thank you enough- YOU ARE AMAZING!!! And much appreciated
Hi, First, wonderful video! Second, I needed a refresher course in soldering, it's been many moons since I worked with it and lo and behold you showed up on my feed! You presented perfectly. I learned that I didn't forget alot. 😊 But would never attempt it without the refresher. Easy to follow and understand. Thank-you so much!
I have taken stained glass classes and been making stained glass for years. I can't believe how much I learn from Makenzie's videos. I just recently discovered her and am so glad I did!
Thanks for the great tips on beading the edges! I’ve don’t a few small pieces, but the edges were really frustrating me. This will really help with my next piece!
Thank you, I learned so much and I have been doing stained glass pieces on and off for couple of years. Thanks for emphasizing making hold for jump rings stronger, with solder bead down the seam nearby. Thanks for showing me I can bead a piece on edge with dots. I have had too many tears trying to hold the solder spool, and soldering iron, and propping up the piece on edge to get solder on it, then too much soldering spilling over the edge on either side. Your technique is so much better and DOABLE! thanks a million, Mahalo!
I just want to let you know how fabulous you are. I'm new to glassing and your tutorials and instructions are so good and on the money. Wheen I ask a question in the group I'm in I get several different answers and everyone is speculating. Thank you for being my point of contact for reliable instruction. God has blessed you with a beautiful gift.
Been a certified welder for 20 years so this isn't a foreign and unfamiliar process to me. I have always adored stained glass; I really love the sun catcher/panel or corner types that can be moved to different places versus actual windows. My only child turned 18 last September. In this (almost) year i have ventured into sewing, quilting, calligraphy, antique steamer trunk restoration, paper quilling, one stroke painting, latch hook, needle felting, embroidery, cross stitch, crochet, woodburning, metal engraving, making hair bows, wreaths, decoupage, book binding, plaster crafts, floral arrangement...just to name a few...and I'm over it all. Stained glass and my lifelong dream of learning and trying glass blowing is all I got left that interests me! Thanks for the very informative video and for actually just keeping it real. Too many people make videos allegedly to share info and knowledge but end up on an ego detour wasting everyone's time basically just going over their own supreme skills without explanation! 🤣
I just love watching your videos,You explain things so well and are so detailed.Thank you for sharing your time with us. Also, I love how meticulous you are.😊
Hey McKenzie, I’m just finishing my first stained glass project after watching so many of your videos. I just love how you rock your feminine energy while owning your masculine side mastering everything tool! I watched many beginners videos but you caught my attention for your detailed honest teaching. I’ve found your advice to be true and valuable. That said; youve added your nails as a tool and so I had so much fun rocking some nails myself to do glass. They’re fun and useful!
Thank you so much my friend! What a wonderful comment and compliment. Im so glad you enjoyed the video, im so sorry i missed your comment for this long! 🖤🙏🏻
Oh jeez, well I'm so glad your learning so much here but sorry about the uninformative classes!!! Sometimes I think people just concentrate on the wrong things when teaching this art! Thank you for watching!!!
This was the BEST video by FAR, that I have watched to help me get better at soldering!! This is what I have been searching for. to help me solder edges on my beveled glass and now has me interested in stained glass too. I have been so discouraged by trying to learn to solder, but know it is something I really want to do. I can't wait to learn more...THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!
This is definitely the best solder tutorial I've seen yet! I've been struggling with getting a good bead and I think I just need to get a better iron. I got one of the cheapo Amazon ones and even though it seems tinned enough, it just doesn't transfer the heat well enough and it's a super pain in the ass. I'll probably end up getting the Hakko since everyone seems to love it.
Thank you so much! And absolutely, the iron will make all the difference in the world! And the 601 is cheap, but quality and will last a long time if taken care of! Just keep practicing and you'll get it with that new iron!!!
Hi Mackenzie, This is the best soldering tutorial I have ever seen!! Thank you so much for your clear explanations and for sharing your knowledge so generously! Ann in England x
My mom did a tonne of stained glass when I was a kid but when they moved in 2005 she sold everything. Now I want to make things and am definitely going to have her help but it's nice seeing how others do it. I'm pretty sure she was self taught nearly 40 years ago so I'm sure there's alot of new things . Thanks so much for the video.
And that's the stuff we're still proud of daily, that we're the sort of women who get it done without help smiling the whole time and remembering good memories
Great lesson! I haven't started yet but am planning to begin learning, watching this video seems a great preparation, I even feel you are better than any groop classes! ❤
I’ve watched this video at least 3 times start to finish and I’ve taken extensive notes. Great content!!! I can’t wait to get started with my first project when my supplies arrive tomorrow!! Thanks Makenzie!!
Thank you Mackenzie for sharing your skills and knowledge with us all. I have been interested in stain glass work for a good while now, but never actually had the confidence to start. After watching many RU-vid videos, especially learning from you I have decided that 2024 will be the year to learn a new craft. Thank you again and Happy New Year. xx🎉
This is an amazing video. SO detailed in every single step that you make. I have been gathering supplies to get started in making stained glass art. I cannot wait to get started. Videos like this one make me feel like I may actually be able to do this art form. Thank you for taking the time to be so detailed in all your demonstrations!
Thank you so much for your tutorials. I have the very last of the stuff I need getting delivered today (watching Amazon delivery like a deranged stalker) and your videos have given me a lot of confidence going forward. 💜
@@MakenzieHallie I finally got all my supplies and studio set up and I pretty much studied by watching your vids on repeat lol and I swear it made my first few pieces go so well!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!
I'm a total newbie, but coming from a jewellery background where sokdering is done with a torch and no iron. I've been trying to find stained glass tutorials and everyone just goes straight to saying "Now I'm tinning this and soldering that..." without the specifics of how or why. This video is exactly what I needed!! So much information, all the context I've been missing and a good understanding now of the difference in technique from torch to iron. Thank you! 🙏
This has to be the best and most instructive video on soldering stained glass I have ever seen. Wow! I'm so excited. You are the best teacher ever. Thank you.
Thanks you are one the best that i have seen so far on soldering. I learned a lot. In my area there is no one to teach this craft i am looking forward to watching and learning more. hope you have one on glass cutting. i suck at it. i know practice makes perfect. you are a blessing thanks
I'm not one to usually comment, but I've got to say this video was so comprehensive and detailed without being repetitive. I feel like I actually learned and retained something. I subscribed, can't wait to watch more of your videos.🖤
Your nails are the stained glass hack of a lifetime. -someone who actually knows nothing about stained glass Also, I love your videos. Thank you for making them.
Your voice tone, and everything in you, helps me to learn faster the lesson , or indications . This is the first time, I don’t get sleepy , or change “chanel” , viewing a video!!!! Thank you so much!!!! I wish you the BEST. !!!!!!
Well thank you so much! I would say I'm surprised, but you would be absolutely shocked with how many times I've gotten this exact comment. I'm sorry it wasn't the best class, but I'm happy you were able to get something good from my video! Tysm for watching! 🖤🙏🏻🌛 Here if you have any questions!
I have Epilepsy and it causes me to have cognitive difficulties and I often have problems now understanding directions (all those years of college… just gone). But you are so thorough, and you explain things so wonderfully that even I can understand. It’s so refreshing! These videos usually leave me feeling frustrated because they go too fast and don’t take into consideration that some of us are *completely* new at this and just starting and don’t even know the basics. You explain everything from the ground up and even give other options in case people prefer other methods… but I especially appreciate that you let me know what I absolutely *have* to have and what is optional - this is really a big deal when you’re just starting out and don’t have anything so have to start from scratch, and being on disability leaves me with an extremely limited income so I really can’t afford to just go out and buy everything… especially if it’s not completely necessary. You’ve basically opened up a whole new area of creative expression for me and done it in such a way I actually feel I can do it as well. ***THANK YOU SO MUCH **
I wish i saw this comment sooner! I hope you went on with your glass journey and are feeling full of confidence and knowledge now! So glad you found this video helpful, thank you. 🖤🙏🏻
I am just beginning with stained glass art and your videos have helped me tremendously. You are one of the best You Tube instructors I have seen. Thank you so much for taking the time to present these very informative videos.
Good job like the way everything is explained coming from someone who attended electronic school in the military. Everything you do from prepping your tools to wiping the soldering iron on the sponge is exactly how we were taught.
It's amazing you can work with your nails so long. Your video is right to the point. Great suggestions. Great soldering too!! Helpful to those beginners and experienced too !
Thank you so much for the information. I just got back in to stained glass. Haven’t done in about 45 years I’m working on a panel. It is now time for me to tack solder it. I am a little nervous, but you’re a video was definitely helping me. Thank you.
Being a novice I appreciate you so much I took lessons and spent a lot of money and you have given me so much more in the few times that I've watched you I realize now that there were many things that I was not made aware of I appreciate you thank you so much I look forward to spending more time with you
A huge THANK YOU Makenzie Hallie!!! I too am self/youTube taught. I'd been struggling with running a smooth bead of solder lately. No reason I could fathom really. I'd never heard of tip tinner. The one from Themalelectronics changed everything! My beads are smoother than they ever were! Many Thanks Again!!! ~Kim~
I want to thank you for such explicit no nonsense instructions…I haven’t done foiling since before you were born. You’ve made it easy for me to hop back in with new and improved tools! Thank you!
I was just looking for tips on soldering when I found this. Good info and I had no idea soldering stained-glass was a thing. Nice to see. And what's really amazing is how good you are at working with your hands with nails that long. 😂❤ OH! Also, that 80's music in the background really took me back. So some nostalgia as well.
Very good description. I'm struggling re-learning to solder and it takes time. I need a close-up (really close up) of what a good solder should look like. I have starts and stops so leaves a line across the bead and I don't think that will look right after patina. Thanks. Your video was great.
Practice practice practice. You want that line to be a solid smooth bead. If your tip is tinned, using good quality solder and flux that bead will run smooth if you do your job right- (To practice practice practice!) The more time in it, the easier it will be. And the easier it will be to even go back in a cooled bead line and melt out a break. You can do it!!
This was wonderful! I've been doing glass for many, many years and this passion requires lifelong learning! Techniques can always be improved upon and a professional outcome is key! I am now a subscriber!
Absolutely the most informative video ever!!!!! thank you sooo much for posting this. I've learned more in this video than the hours and hours of other videos. You are an amazing teacher and artist!!❤❤❤
No freaking way!!! Tell Debbie i said hi please! If you dont mind, and also Happy late birthday!! She might kill me for that one. Lol. Her birthday was Sunday. 🎂🖤
Thank you so much Albert! And to answer both, many things. So just a few being the whole point of using different solders and the way they behave- to a stained glass makers advantage. So running your iron to hot for any solder your using will affect how it sets, runs. Ex- pooling, setting to quickly, melting your foil adhesive, cracking glass, inability to run a smooth bead, inability to fill gaps, etc. 🖤
@@MakenzieHallie I now understand why I have to watdh iron temperature. Thank you so much. My first try after wathching your tutorial was not too bad. will keep tryng. Thanks.
Thanks Makenzie for the info. We're going to throw out our cheapo soldering irons and get the same temp control you mentioned, plus tinning. I never heard of tinning; but I took my stain glass lessons 30 years ago. Now retired, so I thought I'd give it another try. Still have the glass, etc. I've subscribed. Best to you. Thanks for the good work!
